{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-civilians-subject-to-service-discipline-order-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/836",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces (Civilians Subject to Service Discipline) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-civilians-subject-to-service-discipline-order-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nUnder the Armed Forces Act 2006 certain persons may, for the purposes of the Act, be “civilians subject to service discipline”.\nWhether a person is a civilian subject to service discipline depends in some cases partly on whether he is a member or employee of a specified organisation.\nArticle 2 and Schedule 1 provide for the specification of the military organisation (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) certain of whose members or employees are civilians subject to service discipline when outside the British Islands.\nArticle 3 and Schedule 2 provide for the specification of those other organisations whose employees are civilians subject to service discipline when in a designated area.\nSome categories of person are civilians subject to service discipline if they are in a designated area. Article 4 and Schedule 3 provide for the designation of areas for the different categories.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/836/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:42.863245+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}